Re: support for really large buffers?

From:

Stefan Monnier

Subject:

Re: support for really large buffers?

Date:

Fri, 12 Sep 2003 22:18:37 GMT

User-agent:

Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

> I haven't run gnus for a while and so when I did, somehow my
> ~/.emacs-mail-crash-box grew to 200MB (I get lots of spam-mails) and I
> get "Maximum buffer size exceeded".
> Can I compile emacs with support for such large buffers?
The max-buffer-size on 32bit machines was increased yesterday in Emacs-CVS
from 128M to 256M. There might be other limitations (some of them within
Emacs) that can still prevent you from opening a 200M file, tho.
I have an additional patch that pushes the limit to 512M, but it hasn't
been accepted/installed yet.
Stefan